A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
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What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.
Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
It's very important with these young people who are graduating and getting married to write thank-you notes.
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.